Merge branch 'develop' into babolivier/invite-json

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/events.py b/synapse/storage/events.py

index fefba39ea1..b486ca50eb 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/events.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/events.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ from synapse.api.constants import EventTypes
 from synapse.api.errors import SynapseError
 from synapse.events import EventBase  # noqa: F401
 from synapse.events.snapshot import EventContext  # noqa: F401
+from synapse.logging.context import PreserveLoggingContext, make_deferred_yieldable
+from synapse.logging.utils import log_function
 from synapse.metrics import BucketCollector
 from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process
 from synapse.state import StateResolutionStore
@@ -45,8 +47,6 @@ from synapse.util import batch_iter
 from synapse.util.async_helpers import ObservableDeferred
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import cached, cachedInlineCallbacks
 from synapse.util.frozenutils import frozendict_json_encoder
-from synapse.util.logcontext import PreserveLoggingContext, make_deferred_yieldable
-from synapse.util.logutils import log_function
 from synapse.util.metrics import Measure
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -253,7 +253,14 @@ class EventsStore(
         )
 
         # Read the extrems every 60 minutes
-        hs.get_clock().looping_call(self._read_forward_extremities, 60 * 60 * 1000)
+        def read_forward_extremities():
+            # run as a background process to make sure that the database transactions
+            # have a logcontext to report to
+            return run_as_background_process(
+                "read_forward_extremities", self._read_forward_extremities
+            )
+
+        hs.get_clock().looping_call(read_forward_extremities, 60 * 60 * 1000)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _read_forward_extremities(self):